The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally CarterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was originally supposed to be a book I finished in 2024, but I think I should finish it now because it was so much fun to read. I have never had this much fun with a book until now, and I liked the rival-to-lovers part of the book, it made it more fun and interesting as they team up to solve the disappearance of a beloved author.
Maggie Chase hates Ethan Wyatt. Downright hates him. He calls her Marcie and he wears leather jackets he writes "leather jacket books", and one of them is being turned into a movie. At a holiday party at Killhaven Books, Maggie's agent tells her that one of her biggest fans wants to invite her to her manor in England, and even though she doesn't want to go, she decides to say yes when she overhears Ethan saying something along the lines of "She's better than him." or something like that.
When she reaches the plane, she runs into Ethan, and it turns out he was also invited to England to their fan's house. Even though she doesn't want to spend Christmas with him, she deals with it as they go to England and meet their biggest fan, who turns out to be Eleanor Ashley, a famed mystery writer also known as The Duchess of Death. Eleanor is an eighty-year-old woman who is home for the holidays and is writing her one-hundredth book. Along with Ethan and Maggie are an elective group of people to spend the holidays with, and when Eleanor goes missing, almost all of hell breaks loose.
Ethan and Maggie team up and the two start to solve the murder or disappearance of Eleanor Ashley, while they trying to solve the disappearance, they fall in love, and you get to learn more about both Ethan and Maggie while they trying to solve the mystery of Eleanor Ashley. I thought I wasn't going to like how Ethan and Maggie fall in love, but as we get these flashbacks of Maggie's life of when she met her best friend and ex-husband Emily and Colin and how they got divorced and how she found them in bed together, and then how she met Ethan and how she started to hate him. Ethan, on the other hand, fell in love with her the moment she saw her, and has told her, even tried to guess her whole name, which I found pretty darn cute. Watching them solve the murder and then falling in love, and watching Ethan go "Who did this to you" and "If you touch her I'll kill you?" BRUH MY HEART I LOVED THAT. Ate it all up.
I loved reading this book so much, even though I wish it wasn't so short, I still loved it very much.
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